A Fort Collins‘ local paper, The Fort Collins Coloradoan, recently closed its printing plant, laying off 48 workers. Coloradoan printing will continue at Denver Newspaper Agency, which also printed the Rocky Mountain News until its wholesale closure in February of this year.

The Coloradoan operates a full-scale Web site, and is owned by Gannett Co, a Virginia-based news conglomerate.

Old Town Fort Collins, photo courtesy of City of Fort Collins

About an hour north of Denver is Colorado’s next sizable city before reaching the Wyoming border and its capital, Cheyenne.  It’s Fort Collins, home to the mighty Cache La Poudre River, Colorado State University, and about 131,000 people.  The city of Fort Collins has been the city of choice for many people, from retirees to young families, and of course, college students.  If you’re looking for homes on the market there, try starting with the basics, such as:  Fort Collins subdivisions, Fort Collins neighborhoods, Fort Collins streets, Fort Collins condos, or Fort Collins zip codes.

Fort Collins was voted in the CNN Money Magazine 2005 poll as one of America’s best places to live, but that’s old news. The new news is that home-to-work commute times are low in the Fort Collins/Larimer County area, and that carpooling is in.  Most Fort Collins residents work within thirty minutes of home, as opposed to commuting to and from outlying areas or the Denver Metro area, and that’s a factor that indicates a high quality of life for most.

If you’re interested in learning more about specific neighborhoods, and where they are in relationship to downtown, the university, the Hewlett Packard facility, and other employers in town, here are some popular Fort Collins neighborhoods:

And if your search does take you outside the city limits of Fort Collins, the following is a sampling of neighboring communities in the Fort Collins and northern Colorado area.